Memorial to Imre Nagy

Prime Minister during the 1956 Uprising, Imre Nagy was deposed and then summarily executed by the Communists - despite their assurances that he would not be harmed in anyway. His statue looks away from Szabadsag ter towards the Parliament building and the Eternal Flame. The reason he looks away from the square is that the Russians placed a massive memorial to their dead in the square and under the terms of the removal of Russian forces, it has to remain in the city. The square itself has been pedestrianised as when they were in the process of building an underground carpark they discover human remains which they think are of Russian soldiers. The irony being that the Russians demolished a Hungarian War Memorial from 1919 to make space for their memorial